Thursday, December 17, 2015

Juan Williams argues
that the repeal of ObamaCare that has just passed the Senate is merely
a bluff on the part of the GOP, who are plainly aware that the
President will simply veto the measure if the House also passes
it. Williams is also correct that the Republicans will pay for these
maneuvers:

If the GOP is serious, the party will lay down a
better healthcare plan. It will have to help more people than the 17
million who have gained insurance under ObamaCare, including 1 million
new customers since Nov. 1 of this year. The GOP will also have to do
a better job of reining in the greedy insurance companies. And it will
have to demonstrate that its plan does more to hold down the nation's
healthcare costs.

This is where the Republican house of
cards collapses. It is all a bluff.

Williams is right
about the outcome (although wrong about what he imagines would be
better than the ACA) if one assumption of his holds up, which it
probably will for the foreseeable future.

His assumption is
this: The GOP will continue allowing leftists to set the terms of the
medical "insurance" debate. For just one example, when push comes to shove, even Marco
Rubio, recently fingered
as the one Republican who has done the most to hasten the death of the
ACA, has said he wants to save Medicare and Medicaid. No one in the
GOP that I know of is willing to argue that the proper purpose
of government
is to protect individual
rights -- to make us able to care
for ourselves -- rather than to take care of us. Conversely, none
has pointed out that what is being called "insurance" isn't, much less calling for the legalization of actual health
insurance.

Until such a day, we will have two parties that
favor central planning and -- because central planning cannot
run a large, modern economy -- the one not in power will
inevitably be able to play finger-pointing games. This will go on without even a peep about the one thing -- liberty -- that really could bring
reasoning minds to bear on our problems.